Canadian Commander Brigadier-General Daniel Ménard insisted that they will even use the same tactics to minimize the number of civilians killed in Kandahar, insisting that the number of Marjah residents killed was “not bad.” The Kandahar operation will begin this spring.

Author: Jason Ditz

While no fan of the Taliban, I hope that in 'defense' of 'Their' country that they persevere.

In the mean time those who have little, now have less, and are cold and bleeding while the planners are sipping Martinis listening to Wagner.

When will ever learn.

John

If this wasn't so tragic it would be funny. It reminds me of what was General Custer's last words to his troops were before they headed downwards towards the Little Bighorn River: Steady men, steady. There's enough for all of us."

What? Are you people high on the weed? Didn't anybody else take a look at the front page of MSN this morning? "New Beginning in Marjah" screams the headline. Yep, total victory – for the good guys. Quotes like 'a very historical day, a new beginning,' pepper the truthpiece. Best of all, they(the good guys) rounded up everybody in town and forced them to get their picture taken as a group. "They are voting with their eyes…" says the US general in charge. Sweet.
God Bless America.

Generalissimo X

is any semi-intelligent human even remotely surprised by another total failure by the US military..? seriously, this is not the same force that over ran germany and japan in the 40's. they talk about how big and brave they are, yet the can't even quell one third world village or beat a bunch of religious nut jobs with sandals and kalishnakovs. the only thing they are seemingly good at is blowing up civilians and unarmed people. when they actually have to face action they call in an air strike or send in a robot to disarm a IED. yeah, you're real bad ass…give it up, you're just brainwashed occupiers oppressing people in their homes. no one has ever beaten a determined guerilla resistance, and no one ever will. least of all a bunch of braind dead culturally ignortant rednecks in the US military.

The USA are effective when they have proxy death squads in places like Central and South America. They are effective in teaching their proxies in the School of The Americas, so that the proxies can go back home and practice the torture techniques thay have learned, on their own people. The USA are effective in dumbing down and brainwashing the public, so they have a (barely enough now) ready and willing population to carry out their wars and stealing the resources of others.
the USA are effective in recycling retreads like Gates and Negroponte, to do their bidding in dirty and illegal wars… I won`t bore you with more, you can read it in history books..

Porter, my old Vietnam nemesis, is absolutely right, the Afghan "surge" is nothing but PR. In my view, just like the Iraq "surge," Petraeus, through his hand picked flunky McChrystal, will again pretend victory in service of his Republican Presidential Campaign in 2012; or, short of semblance of victory, will play the "stab in the back" card a la Cheney should Obama pulls us out bin 2011. Petraeus has indeed betrayed us. But none of this could have happened had academics hadn't also betrayed us by playing the role in society we tenure them to play. Had they insisted on MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE through teach-ins, as they had throughout the Vietnam War, none of this would have been possible. And though the Pentagon labels even every sheet of toilet paper "top secret," some patriot would have "leaked" enough to expose the "surge" frauds that are killing our mom&dad soldiers.